The Mueller Report thread

[hollodero]

(04-22-2020, 06:24 PM)6andcounting Wrote: Russia worked to influence the election, but Mueller said no American was part of the collusion. That's why the way it's worded is correct. 

I don't really think that's what Mueller said... I might admit that this is a matter of interpretation perhaps.

To underline my stance though, the Muller report did find that Manafort gave polling data to a Russian spy, it did state that Kremlin operatives gave the campaign some sort of preview of the Hillary email distribution timetable, also there's the whole Roger Stone/Wikileags saga and this Trump Tower/dirt saga, so I couldn't go as far as to say "Mueller found no American was part of the collusion". It rather stated that there was not sufficient evidence to establish actual coordination and support for these Russian efforts. Which, to me, is not the same.

There are other things like Flynn and Papadopulos and that Mueller did not delve into counterintelligence matters in the first place... and there is some kind of evidence, just not sufficient to indict. In case of Don jr. specifically, only the assumption of utter naivité saved him from that. He did not "willfully" coordinate, and the offered dirt might maybe not be a "thing of value", it's these kinds of considerations that lead to de-facto exonerations, not the lack of any evidence. Imho, just imho.